More luxurious and complex than the Ideal Album taught in previous years, this is an extremely elegant structure suitable for presenting suites of prints, drawings or photographs. We will make the pages from a heavy and luxurious soft white etching paper, folded at the fore-edge, with an embossed, recessed area in the page for mounting the images. The embossed panel serves two functions: it provides a handsome frame for the mounted images to nestle in, and it ensures that the finished binding is of universal thickness. We will then are join together the folded pages with hinges of colored paper, which produce an easy opening structure, and add cloth joints for attaching to the cover. The cover has cushioned boards and is covered in a handsome canvas cloth, with a recessed panel on the front for the title label.

Materials to Bring: Optional: bone folder, metal ruler, scalpel, cutting mat, dividers. These tools are available at SFCB for your use but some students like to bring their own.

Workshop + Materials Fee: $215.00

Date & Time: Sunday, August 7, 2016 :: 9:30am-5:30pm

Location: 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Note: Please read over the SFCB Registration Policies before signing up for a class

REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 3 DAYS PRIOR TO THE START DATE OF THIS WORKSHOP.

About the Instructor | Michael Burke

Michael Burke studied bookbinding with Dominic Riley and paper conservation with Karen Zukor. Michael lives in the Lake District, England, where he teaches bookbinding as well at events across the UK. He is a past chair of the North West and North Wales region of SoB. He has taught for diverse book arts groups in the USA, including Los Angeles, Seattle and Salt Lake City. In recent years he has taught at the Paper and Book Intensive, travelled to São Paulo to teach for the Brazilian group ABER, and in 2011 presented Byzantine binding at the Seminar of the Guild of Bookworkers. Michael researches the structures of ancient and medieval bindings. He is currently studying for a Masters degree in the History of the Book at the University of London.

Past Student Reviews:

"I was impressed with Michael's professionalism and patience."

"Michael was a very patient, well-organized instructor. I loved learning  the new technique for creating album pages, and, overall, enjoyed learning this structure."

"nstructor was knowledgable and delightfully instructive."